Characteristics of Madariaga and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infections, Panama

Rivera L.F.; Lezcano-Coba C.; Galué J.; Rodriguez X.; Juarez Y.; de Souza W.M.; Capitan-Barrios Z.; Valderrama A.; Abrego L.; Cedeño H.; Jackman C.; Waggoner J.J.; Aguilar P.V.; Guzman H.; Weaver S.C.; Tesh R.B.; López-Vèrges S.; Donnelly C.A.; Estofolete C.F.; Nogueira M.L.; Faria N.R.; Vasilakis N.; Vittor A.Y.; Smith D.R.; Carrera J.-P. · Emerging Infectious Diseases (2024) · DOI: 10.3201/eid3014.240182

Resumen

Madariaga virus (MADV) and Venezuelan equine encephawere detected in Panama during 1961‒2023. We delitis virus (VEEV) are emerging arboviruses affecting rural scribed the clinical signs and symptoms and epidemiologic and remote areas of Latin America. However, clinical and characteristics of those cases, and also explored signs and epidemiologic reports are limited, and outbreaks are occur-symptoms as potential predictors of encephalitic alphavirus ring at an increasing frequency. We addressed the data gap infection compared with those of other arbovirus infections by analyzing all available clinical and epidemiologic data of occurring in the region. Our results highlight the challenges MADV and VEEV infections recorded since 1961 in Pan-for the clinical diagnosis of alphavirus disease in endemic ama. A total of 168 human alphavirus encephalitis cases regions with overlapping circulation of multiple arboviruses.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia